Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience

Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience

This is the first publication to analyse fully the significance of faience in ancient Egypt, and to present the most marvellous examples of its creation. The editor shows how faience was used and produced, as well as its symbolic values.

New York : Thames and Hudson

Edited by Florence Dunn Friedman ; with the assistance of Georgina Borromeo ; technical editing by Mimi Leveque

Faience: the brilliance of eternity / Florence Dunn Friedman -- Symbols and meanings / Robert Steven Bianchi -- By necessity or design: Faience use in ancient Egypt / Diana Craig Patch -- Nubian faience / Peter Lacovara -- Materials and technology / Paul T. Nicholson -- The plates: Early faience -- Faience and the royal life -- Women's use and female-related themes -- Faience in daily life and devotion -- Funerary uses of faience -- Materials and technology -- Notes on the plates.

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